Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 1

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.

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This book contains:



- Washington Irving:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle

The Devil and Tom Walker

Christmas

Guest from Gibbet Island

The Legend of the Engulphed Convent

The Adventure of my Uncle



- Oscar Wilde:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Sphinx without a Secret

A Model Millionaire

The Happy Prince

The Fisherman and his Soul

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Young King



- Bram Stoker:The Castle of the King

A Star Trap

The Secret of the Growing Gold

The Burial of the Rats

Dracula's Guest

The Squaw

The Judge's House



- H.G. Wells:The Time Machine

A Dream Of Armageddon

The Crystal Egg

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

The Sea Riders

The Apple



- Arthur Conan Doyle:A Scandal In Bohemia

The Five Orange Pips

The Disintegration Machine

When the World Screamed

The Great Keinplatz Experiment

The Horror of the Heights

The Ring of Thoth



- E.T.A. Hoffman:The Golden Pot

The Sandman

Councillor Krespela

Automata

The Elementary Spirit

The Jesuits' Church in G--

The Story of the Hard Nut



- Rudyard Kipling:The Mark of the Beast

The Phantom 'Rickshaw

Mowgli's Brothers (from the Jungle Book)

Kaa's Hunting (from the Jungle Book)

Tiger! Tiger! (from the Jungle Book)

The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

The Man Who Would Be King



- Franz Kafka:The Metamorphosis

A Hunger Artist

In the penal colony

The Judgment

Before the Law

A Country Doctor

A Report to an Academy



- H.P. Lovecraft:The Call of Cthulhu

The Outsider

Pickman's Model

The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Colour out of Space

The Dunwich Horror

The Music of Erich Zann



- Edgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Black Cat